The DoD has a list of support-the-troops links.
Add Flit to the hour-by-hour war report blogs.
Outside the Beltway has some happy photos of US troops, plus one of Saddam's presidential palace - ouch.
Amygdala consistently finds obscure funky science and political stories in corners where no one else is looking, for example the diaries of Gertrude Bell, one of those dotty English adventurers whose fascination with Arab culture shaped the Middle East into what it is today.
. . . her life was governed by a love of the Arab peoples, inspired, it seems, by a visit to friends in Jerusalem in 1899-1900. She learned their language, investigated their archaeological sites, and travelled deep into the desert, accompanied only by male guides. Her knowledge of the country and its tribes thereby gained made her a prime target for recruitment by British Intelligence during the First World War, later, as a Political Officer, and then as Oriental Secretary to the High Commissioner in Baghdad, she became a king-maker in the new state of Iraq, which she had helped to create. Her first love, however, was always for archaeology, and, as Honorary Director of Antiquities in Iraq, she established in Baghdad the Iraq Museum.Jim Henley has a suggestion for an incorruptible, experienced, credible statesman of international stature to helm the post-war Iraq Reconstructon Commission. I like it.
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